Kids

If you build your child's self-esteem on a regular basis, you'll have the foundation and the tools to discipline your child while still encouraging his self-worth.

Unfortunately, these days too many professionals, parents, and teachers immediately lean toward a diagnosis of ADD and/or ADHD when a child exhibits "fidgety" characteristics.

To find other parents of children with CP, call your local or regional CP headquarters and explain your needs to them.

All kids repeatedly experience these kinds of feelings, as they learn to exist outside of their parents' presence.

Our expert recommends some great books on self-esteem and teens.

When a parent is consistently too harsh with her kids, a family therapist can help to restore a happier, healthier family life.

The exact cause of febrile seizures, which are quite common, is still not known. Get information on how best to handle them.

A desperate mother complains that her daughter is turning the house into a garbage dump.

Whatever you do, don't let someone start convincing you that you could control your child's impulses by medicating him.

Kids say the main reason they bring guns to school is to protect themselves from real and/or potential violence.

Many kids believe that if they were better kids -- i.e., performed perfectly -- their parents never would have become angry with each other and divorced.

Rather than debate the value of labeling kids as gifted, our expert tells a mother not to worry that her child is not in gifted classes.

The reward-and-punishment system does a poor job at teaching kids to be responsible for their own behavior; it makes parents responsible for it.

I suggest you and your husband make an all-out effort to leave this bad situation and find the best daycare arrangements possible.

It's important to keep a three-year-old's life as secure and predictable as possible, and with as many regular pleasing rituals as possible.

Kids need to grieve over their pet's death and move through all the stages of that grieving process.

Giving your daughter consequences and/or taking away privileges is inappropriate and is not going to help the problem.

There are many different "childhood expert" suggestions for how to talk to your children about childbirth, sex, and sexuality.